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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Society and Culture
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Society and Culture When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Society and Culture
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society and Culture
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Society and Culture The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture
